Got HIDS?

2003silverneonsxt · Post by **2003silverneonsxt** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:52 pm

yes i know they arent as cool as hanklash's projectors, but i got some McCollugh 4700k HIDS

bright during the day:

straight on the car:

side shot:

from behind:

more pics here
http://www.randomidiot.com/randomneonidiot/hid%20pics/

atom · Post by **atom** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:01 pm

Any problems at all? I used to have some super bright HIDs and i had some burn marks put in my projectors. Looks nice and bright though!

2003silverneonsxt · Post by **2003silverneonsxt** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:11 pm

no problems so far..just put them in though..so well see

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:12 pm

Wooow damn I was kinda expecting a wider beam pattern and more light down ahead. It looks kinda weired not what i expected. I guess its becasue of the 4.2mm difference between the fillament location.

We will have to see how mine are gonna look.

FTWNeon · Post by **FTWNeon** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:20 pm

Where'd you get them from?

2003silverneonsxt · Post by **2003silverneonsxt** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:47 pm

my buddy that lives in reading sold them to me...

marakka · Post by **marakka** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:19 am

Mine are the same way. I've got some 8k ones from one of the guys on srtforums. Not much more projection than a stock light down the road. Side by side with a stock neon you can't really tell the difference except in brightness. In the normal beam pattern everything is ridiculously illuminated. The only benefit I see from it is that reflective objects out of the beam pattern glow. I don't know why, but like street signs or the reflectors in the road glow from WAY far away even if I can't see the road or anything, I still see them shining

LaidNeon · Post by **LaidNeon** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:32 pm

lucky

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:50 pm

Dan, you want HIDs?.. $230 brand new.

but yes to the question : I got hids.

Mine are OEM! =)

bad04srt · Post by **bad04srt** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:48 pm

i like it from behind....oops i mean lol

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:34 am

This makes me want to take pictures of mine. Looks like that's what I'll be doing tonight.

702Neon · Post by **702Neon** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:36 am

what's the price on dem HIDs? i want them so bad.
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LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:29 pm

LowNSlow wrote:Dan, you want HIDs?.. $230 brand new.

but yes to the question : I got hids. Mine are OEM! =)

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:05 am

Okay so I went and took a quick couple of pics of mine. They're 6500k. Most of them are blurry, sorry about that, can't hold still long enough for the shutter.

And I can't seem to find a road dark enough around here...

so I settled for industrial.

702Neon · Post by **702Neon** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:45 pm

Nice Neonix, veeery nice. damn, i want those so bad.
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ilpadrino · Post by **ilpadrino** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:41 pm

I posted pics of mine when I had a similar thread going. I'm just a little lazy right now to look for 'em.

LowNSlow · Post by **LowNSlow** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:00 pm

Old SRT

teggy

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:01 am

^ very nice!

I wish I had projectors.

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:27 pm

Here are mine. There was a lot of water drops on the surface and it caused a lot of glare but when clean they look very sweet.

Here is also a video of the start up and warm up process.

I will try to take some more photos tonight.

lambostealth · Post by **lambostealth** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:10 pm

I would throw rocks at your car for blinding me.

SILVER-ES · Post by **SILVER-ES** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:16 pm

lambostealth wrote:I would throw rocks at your car for blinding me.

I'd run you over for being an idiot and staring directly into the headlights. Maybe that's just me thouh.

Yes, I realize the name calling may be childish, but what's more childish then throwing rocks at someones car.

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:28 pm

lambostealth wrote:I would throw rocks at your car for blinding me.

Go ahead throw them I got my gun loaded and ready for action.

No seriously come on! Dont be a kid.

There was rain all over the car this morning and the drops on the headlights caused some more then usual glare. Now its raining again tonight so I cant take any pix to prove to you that the glare is minimal and in fact the focus of the headlights is a lot better then it was with the hallogens. The cutoff line is a lot sharper then before.

BTW the kit is 5000K

ilpadrino · Post by **ilpadrino** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:31 pm

I love the effect of them warming up too.

I'd take new pics but I'm too lazy. I'm also too lazy to track down my pics lol. Sorry.

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:34 pm

I think that's one of my favorite parts about having HIDs is them warming up!

Post by **Diablo0** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:49 pm

YES... the warmup is the best! Mine go from a nice purple to a white and it make people go "ooooo" when I turn mine on lol.

03neonRT · Post by **03neonRT** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:47 pm

I want a linky to where i can get some...

lambostealth · Post by **lambostealth** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:06 pm

If yo lived in a town where a lot of dumbasses put them in stock housings, you would feel the same. You cannot disagree that your are blinding people at night.

I really hate that crap........Have one of your friends drive your car towards you, while you are driving thiers toward them, you don't have to stare right at them to be temperarily blinded on a dark road.....

Kits SUCK......I would never do anything to someones car, it was a joke, however, me being pissed off at the many ricers that ONLY put them in thier cars to get bright blue/purple lights, is not a joke, there is no real performance gain with a kit, the beam is not centralized enough.

Sorry, but you know it's true!

lolelectricbluesxt · Post by **lolelectricbluesxt** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:49 am

Umm. Dont look directly at the light? HEHEHE. Alright. Here. Let me just adjust my rearview mirror accordingly. My bad for being inconvienced by a stupid overly bright light. ...

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:29 am

I know that glare sux real bad and it even pisses me off when people drive around with unaligned headlights. But the majority of the glare probably like (95%) of it is caused by a bad lens that has chips from road debree, scratches and dirt on it. All the headlights are designed to be pretty efficient with light output and minimal glare but as they get old glare increases. The deal with the HIDs in our headlights is that the focal point changes and it causes the light pattern to change a little bit. I am very happy with the way the HIDs in my headlights are. I can notice a lot of glare when the headlights are wet but thats because of the water drops on the surface that cause light to be dispursed all over the place. When they are dry however its almost the same as stock only more white then yellow.

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:37 am

lambostealth wrote:Kits SUCK......I would never do anything to someones car, it was a joke, however, me being pissed off at the many ricers that ONLY put them in thier cars to get bright blue/purple lights, is not a joke, there is no real performance gain with a kit, the beam is not centralized enough.

Sorry, but you know it's true!

No actually it's not true. You can't tell me there is no difference going from halogens to HIDs. I'm sorry, but there is a difference. And there's even more of a difference if you do happen to have the money and time to chop up your set or another set of housings to make projectors (since we all know and agree that the ebay ones look like poo). Just because someone, or alot of people don't have that kind of money and want better vision at night and get HIDs in stock housings doesn't make them a ricer. If that's the case, I'm a ricer, Jason's a ricer and several other people on these boards alone, are ricers.

Sorry, but yeah I do disagree with some of the things you're saying.